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Our study of the basic model for incompressible two-phase flows with phase transitions consistent with thermodynamics [10,11,12,16] is extended to the case of temperature-dependent surface tension. We prove well-posedness in an Lp-setting,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-05-23 Jan Pruess , Senjo Shimizu , Gieri Simonett , Mathias Wilke

This paper discusses a relation between the re-initialization equation of the level-set functions derived by Wac{\l}awczyk [J.Comp.Phys., 299, (2015)] and the condition for the phase equilibrium provided by the stationary solution to the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-02-13 Tomasz Wacławczyk

A diffuse interface model for surfactants in multi-phase flow with three or more fluids is derived. A system of Cahn-Hilliard equations is coupled with a Navier-Stokes system and an advection-diffusion equation for the surfactant ensuring…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Oliver R. A. Dunbar , Kei Fong Lam , Bjorn Stinner

In this paper, a fractional step lattice Boltzmann method is proposed to model two-phase flows with large density differences by solving Cahn-Hilliard phase-field equation and the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations.In order to maintain…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-12-07 Chunhua Zhang , Zhaoli Guo , Yibao Li

Central finite difference schemes have long been avoided in the context of two-phase flows for the advection of the phase indicator function due to numerical overshoots and undershoots associated with their dispersion errors. We will show…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-12-23 Shahab Mirjalili , Christopher B. Ivey , Ali Mani

In this work a solver for instationary two-phase flows on the basis of the extended Discontinuous Galerkin (extended DG/XDG) method is presented. The XDG method adapts the approximation space conformal to the position of the interface. This…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-19 Martin Smuda , Florian Kummer

We investigate a novel Marangoni-induced instability that arises exclusively in diffuse fluid interfaces, absent in classical sharp-interface models. Using a validated phase-field Navier-Stokes-Allen-Cahn framework, we linearize the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-01-14 Xiangwei Li , Dongdong Wan , Haohao Hao , Christian Diddens , Mengqi Zhang , Huanshu Tan

A consistent and conservative Phase-Field method, including both the model and scheme, is developed for multiphase flows with an arbitrary number of immiscible and incompressible fluid phases. The consistency of mass conservation and the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-02-15 Ziyang Huang , Guang Lin , Arezoo M. Ardekani

This paper is devoted to the robust approximation with a variational phase field approach of multiphase mean curvature flows with possibly highly contrasted mobilities. The case of harmonically additive mobilities has been addressed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Eric Bonnetier , Elie Bretin , Simon Masnou

We develop a phase-field model for evaporation from a porous medium by explicitly considering a vapor component together with the liquid and gas phases in the system. The phase-field model consists of the conservation of mass (for phases…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-26 Tufan Ghosh , Carina Bringedal , Christian Rohde , Rainer Helmig

We study a thermodynamically consistent diffuse-interface model that describes the motion of two macroscopically immiscible, incompressible, and viscous Newtonian fluids with unmatched densities. This model is compatible with continuum…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-30 Mingwen Fei , Xiang Fei , Yadong Liu , Hao Wu

We present here a multilayer model for shallow grain-fluid mixtures with dilatancy effects. It can be seen as a generalization of the depth-averaged model presented in Bouchut et al. (2016), that includes dilatancy effects by considering a…

A diffused interface model describing the evolution of two conterminous incompressible fluids in a porous medium is discussed. The system consists of the Cahn-Hilliard equation with Flory-Huggins logarithmic potential, coupled via surface…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-07-24 Nitu Lakhmara , Hari Shankar Mahato

We investigate the limiting behavior of the Navier-Stokes-Cahn-Hilliard model for binary-fluid flows as the diffuse-interface thickness passes to zero, in the presence of fluid-fluid-solid contact lines. Allowing for motion of such contact…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-07-09 T. H. B. Demont , S. K. F. Stoter , C. Diddens , E. H. van Brummelen

This paper enhances the Diffuse Interface Method (DIM) for simulating compressible multiphase flows across all Mach numbers by addressing the accuracy challenges posed at low Mach regimes. A correction to the Riemann solver is introduced,…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-03-17 Ghanshyam Bharate , J. C. Mandal

In many interfacial flow systems, variations of surface properties lead to novel and interesting behaviors. In this work a three-dimensional model of flow dynamics for multicomponent vesicles is presented. The surface composition is modeled…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-12-07 Prerna Gera , David Salac

A thermodynamic approach to rapid phase transformations within a diffuse interface in a binary system is developed. Assuming an extended set of independent thermodynamic variables formed by the union of the classic set of slow variables and…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Peter Galenko , David Jou

We present a hybrid Volume-of-Fluid (VoF) Phase-Field method for general soluble surfactant-laden interfacial flows. The scheme retains the VoF method for interface tracking and momentum solution, while a diffused Phase-Field serves as a…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2026-05-28 Ilies Haouche , Benjamin Reichert , Michaël Baudoin , Palas Kumar Farsoiya

Surface-subsurface flow models for hydrological applications solve a coupled multiphysics problem. This usually consists of some form of the Richards and shallow water equations. A typical setup couples these two nonlinear partial…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-25 Valentina Schüller , Philipp Birken , Andreas Dedner

We analyze a diffuse interface model for multi-phase flows of $N$ incompressible, viscous Newtonian fluids with different densities. In the case of a bounded and sufficiently smooth domain existence of weak solutions in two and three space…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-01-15 Helmut Abels , Harald Garcke , Andrea Poiatti